I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg

Re:I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg by holografix on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:12AM (#11421204)

Love seeing someone using selenium and I had no idea you could use anything else than the Chrome driver, what's a headless browser?! I automated whole sections of my old Sales Rep job with Selenium it was so awesome

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Re:I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg by brbsix on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:35AM (#11421727)

Basically just a browser without a GUI. You can run a normal browser like Chrome or Firefox with a dummy display server or a real headless browser like PhantomJS or SlimerJS.

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Re:I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg by voyweb on Monday April 04, 2016 @08:23AM (#11421283)

Care to share further what you automated?

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Re:I Tried to Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg by holografix on Thursday April 07, 2016 @08:59AM (#11446847)

I was working a sales development type role, which involved some pretty fierce competition to "claim" inbound leads (contact form submissions basically) before anyone else did. Also there were a series of clicks and repetitive tasks you had to perform on each of these leads after you claimed it.

So I automated getting a list of leads, opening them in multiple tabs and sequentially performing all the repetitive tasks so when I eye balled them, they were at the right point in the process. I reckon I save myself about 1.5 hours per day doing this.

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